MATTER OF M.T.

No. COA21-755.

877 S.E.2d 732 (2022)

2022-NCCOA-593

In the MATTER OF: M.T. and K.T.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed September 6, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller & Audino, LLP, by Jeffrey L. Miller , Greenville, and Elizabeth Simpson , for appellant-respondent mother.

Michelle FormyDuval Lynch and Matthew D. Wunsche , Durham, for appellee guardian ad litem.

The Law Office of Derrick J. Hensley, PLLC, by Derrick J. Hensley , Chapel Hill, and Elizabeth P. Kennedy-Gurnee , for appellee-petitioner Durham County Department of Social Services.

Jaclyn Maffetore , for Amicus Curiae The ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation.

Kathleen Lockwood and Nisha Williams , for Amicus Curiae North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Laura Holland , Quisha Mallette , and Sarah Laws, for Amici Curiae North Carolina Justice Center and North Carolina Community Bail Fund of Durham.

Tin, Fulton, Walker & Owen, PLLC, by Abraham Rubert-Schewel , for Amicus Curiae North Carolina NAACP.


¶ 1 All cases involving abuse, neglect, and dependency of children or termination of parental rights arising from physical abuse of a baby are tragic; cases arising from serious and life-threatening non-accidental injuries to a baby are perhaps the most challenging and tragic of all. Here, as in most cases involving life...

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